Race Stats:

13 Renewals and 305 runners

Horses with just 1 race have the best record

6 year olds are very poor (2-86) as 5 year olds (9-159) beat 4 year olds (2-86)

5 year olds have dominated since 1995 winning every year but last year when few were fancied

Horses that ran within 15 days are 0-26

All 23 horses that had ran in Grade 1 orGrade 2 races before lost

Irish Bred horses dominate. The last 12 winners were all Irish bred

Northern trained horses are just 1-55 as Irish trainers dominate (W Mullins won 5 renewals)

Horses that were not 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 in the betting struggled (1-207)

No British bred horse has made the 1-2-3 in the last 8 years

No Maiden has ever won this race

11 of the last 12 winners had won a race in a big field comprising of 15 runners or more

Jockeys that claimed are 1-52